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Events on the 3rd of March in history

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03 Mar 0078 Origin of Saka Era (India)
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03 Mar 0468 St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
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03 Mar 0473 Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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03 Mar 0493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
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03 Mar 0724 Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
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03 Mar 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
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03 Mar 1409 Austrian civil war ends
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03 Mar 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
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03 Mar 1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
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03 Mar 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
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03 Mar 1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
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03 Mar 1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
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03 Mar 1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
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03 Mar 1776 US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
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03 Mar 1776 American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
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03 Mar 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
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03 Mar 1791 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
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03 Mar 1791 Congress establishes US Mint
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03 Mar 1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church
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03 Mar 1799 The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
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03 Mar 1801 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
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03 Mar 1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
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03 Mar 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
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03 Mar 1812 US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
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03 Mar 1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
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03 Mar 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute
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03 Mar 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi
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03 Mar 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
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03 Mar 1820 The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
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03 Mar 1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans, Louisiana
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03 Mar 1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
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03 Mar 1837 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
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03 Mar 1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
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03 Mar 1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
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03 Mar 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
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03 Mar 1845 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
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03 Mar 1845 Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
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03 Mar 1845 Florida becomes 27th state
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03 Mar 1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
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03 Mar 1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
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03 Mar 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
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03 Mar 1849 Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
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03 Mar 1849 Minnesota Territory is organizes
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03 Mar 1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes
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03 Mar 1849 US Department of the Interior established by Congress
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03 Mar 1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
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03 Mar 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
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03 Mar 1853 US Assay Office in NYC authorized
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03 Mar 1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
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03 Mar 1855 Congress authorizes registered mail
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03 Mar 1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
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03 Mar 1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
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03 Mar 1862 Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces
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03 Mar 1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid
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03 Mar 1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
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03 Mar 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
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03 Mar 1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
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03 Mar 1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister, Georgia
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03 Mar 1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
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03 Mar 1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
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03 Mar 1863 Idaho Territory forms
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03 Mar 1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established
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03 Mar 1865 Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
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03 Mar 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
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03 Mar 1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
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03 Mar 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
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03 Mar 1873 Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
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03 Mar 1873 US Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively
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03 Mar 1873 Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
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03 Mar 1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
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03 Mar 1875 Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
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03 Mar 1875 The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
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03 Mar 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
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03 Mar 1877 Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President
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03 Mar 1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
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03 Mar 1878 The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
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03 Mar 1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
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03 Mar 1879 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
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03 Mar 1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
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03 Mar 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
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03 Mar 1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
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03 Mar 1885 American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
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03 Mar 1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of Federal Government)
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03 Mar 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
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03 Mar 1885 The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
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03 Mar 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton, Iowa
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03 Mar 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
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03 Mar 1891 Congress creates Office of Supt of Immigration (Treasury Department)
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03 Mar 1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
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03 Mar 1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created
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03 Mar 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
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03 Mar 1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
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03 Mar 1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
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03 Mar 1894 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
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03 Mar 1894 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
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03 Mar 1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
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03 Mar 1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
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03 Mar 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes
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03 Mar 1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
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03 Mar 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
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03 Mar 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
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03 Mar 1905 US Forest Service forms
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03 Mar 1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
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03 Mar 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
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03 Mar 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
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03 Mar 1910 Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
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03 Mar 1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens in Missouri
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03 Mar 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
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03 Mar 1913 Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
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03 Mar 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
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03 Mar 1915 NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
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03 Mar 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
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03 Mar 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as Czar
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03 Mar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
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03 Mar 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign
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03 Mar 1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
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03 Mar 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
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03 Mar 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
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03 Mar 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
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03 Mar 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka
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03 Mar 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
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03 Mar 1923 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague
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03 Mar 1923 TIME magazine is published for the first time.
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03 Mar 1924 German and Turkish friendship / trade treaty signed
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03 Mar 1924 The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
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03 Mar 1924 The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
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03 Mar 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida)
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03 Mar 1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
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03 Mar 1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
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03 Mar 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
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03 Mar 1933 New York City premiere of "King Kong"
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03 Mar 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
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03 Mar 1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa
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03 Mar 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
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03 Mar 1938 The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
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03 Mar 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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03 Mar 1939 In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
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03 Mar 1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
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03 Mar 1940 Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
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03 Mar 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
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03 Mar 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
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03 Mar 1943 US defeats Japan andwins Battle of Bismark Sea
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03 Mar 1943 World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
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03 Mar 1944 The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
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03 Mar 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
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03 Mar 1945 Roermond / Venlo Neth, freed
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03 Mar 1945 US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
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03 Mar 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
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03 Mar 1946 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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03 Mar 1946 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
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03 Mar 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
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03 Mar 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
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03 Mar 1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
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03 Mar 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
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03 Mar 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
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03 Mar 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
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03 Mar 1953 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
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03 Mar 1955 Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
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03 Mar 1956 Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
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03 Mar 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
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03 Mar 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in New York
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03 Mar 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
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03 Mar 1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
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03 Mar 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones (GRB)
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03 Mar 1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
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03 Mar 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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03 Mar 1957 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
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03 Mar 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
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03 Mar 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes Premier of Iraq
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03 Mar 1958 Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
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03 Mar 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
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03 Mar 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
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03 Mar 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
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03 Mar 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
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03 Mar 1966 Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
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03 Mar 1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
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03 Mar 1966 Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
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03 Mar 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
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03 Mar 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
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03 Mar 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
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03 Mar 1968 Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts
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03 Mar 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
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03 Mar 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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03 Mar 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
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03 Mar 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
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03 Mar 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia
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03 Mar 1972 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
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03 Mar 1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
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03 Mar 1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
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03 Mar 1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
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03 Mar 1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
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03 Mar 1974 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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03 Mar 1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
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03 Mar 1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
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03 Mar 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
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03 Mar 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
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03 Mar 1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina / Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
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03 Mar 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
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03 Mar 1977 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
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03 Mar 1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
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03 Mar 1981 New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
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03 Mar 1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
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03 Mar 1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (6)
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03 Mar 1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective October 1)
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03 Mar 1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
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03 Mar 1985 "My One & Only" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 767 performances
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03 Mar 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
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03 Mar 1985 Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
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03 Mar 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
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03 Mar 1985 Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
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03 Mar 1985 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
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03 Mar 1985 Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
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03 Mar 1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
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03 Mar 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
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03 Mar 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
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03 Mar 1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
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03 Mar 1991 "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
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03 Mar 1991 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
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03 Mar 1991 4 LA cops beat Rodney King, it is video taped
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03 Mar 1991 Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
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03 Mar 1991 LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
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03 Mar 1991 Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
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03 Mar 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
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03 Mar 1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
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03 Mar 1991 United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
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03 Mar 1991 In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
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03 Mar 1991 An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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03 Mar 1992 Charges are filed in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
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03 Mar 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
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03 Mar 1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
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03 Mar 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
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03 Mar 1994 "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
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03 Mar 1994 "Philoktetes Variations, " with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
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03 Mar 1994 IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
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03 Mar 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce
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03 Mar 1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon
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03 Mar 1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
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03 Mar 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
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03 Mar 1997 The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
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03 Mar 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
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03 Mar 2005 Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
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03 Mar 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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03 Mar 2005 Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
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03 Mar 2009 The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
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03 Mar 2012 Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
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03 Mar 2013 A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
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03 Mar 2014 The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
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03 Mar 2015 Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage.
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